Test, Validate & Virtualize for Agile SOA

Broadcast Date: Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EDT -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
John Michelsen - Founder and Chief Scientist of iTKO LISA
Zach Nies - Vice President, Products Rally Software
Patrick Egan - Publisher, Configuration Management Journal

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In this Web seminar, you will learn:

• How to build agility and collaborate effectively within distributed SOA testing and development teams
  
• Best practices for mitigating the risks of delivering and managing software within an ever-changing SOA environment
  
• Methods for SOA testing, validation and visualization to overcome inter dependencies in SOA projects.

John Michelsen
Founder and Chief Scientist
iTKO LISA

Founder and Chief Scientist of iTKO LISA, an automated SOA software testing and virtualization company. John has more than 15 years of high-level enterprise development experience, as a chief architect of development teams and as an executive in designing, developing, and managing large-scale, object-oriented solutions in traditional and network architectures. He is the chief architect of iTKO's LISA automated testing and virtualization product, and a leading industry advocate for software quality, with several published articles and speaking appearances at technology conferences under his belt.

Zach Nies
Vice President, Products
Rally Software

Zach Nies brings close to 20 years of engineering and product development experience to Rally’s innovative products. Prior to joining Rally, Zach served as Principal Architect and Director of Systems Architecture for Level 3 Communications and founded a small start up which was quickly acquired by the publicly traded Creo, Inc, now a division of Kodak. He also served as Chief Software Architect at Quark, where he provided the overarching technological vision for the company. Zach’s product vision has won numerous industry awards, including Jolt Product Excellence awards, Seybold HotPicks and the prized MacWorld Best of Show. Zach has served on standards bodies such as the W3C's HTML working group and currently serves on the board of directors for Agile Denver.

At the age of 13, Zach began commercially publishing software and, at age 16, started a successful consulting business. A Boettcher Scholar, Zach received his BS with distinction in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He spends his spare time tuning his golf swing and spending time with his family.

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iTKO's industry-leading LISATM SOA Testing, Validation & Virtualization solutions mitigate the business risk of change and complexity in enterprise IT environments, while increasing trust across teams and shared technology assets. LISA's Complete, Collaborative and Continuous quality coverage provides validation of every component of SOA workflows throughout their lifecycle, from web apps, to web services, databases, messaging layers, legacy objects and application servers. Developers, QA teams and business analysts can rapidly automate functional and performance tests on a continuous basis through LISA's no-code interface. Founded in 1999, the Dallas-based company's customers include Citigroup, WaMu, Sun, Level3 and DISA.
www.itko.com